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Berliner Zentrum für soziale Erfindungen: Überlegungen zu einem experimentellen Ansatz regionaler Strukturpolitik

Knie, Andreas - In: Zukunftsmetropole Berlin: Kritik und Perspektiven …, (pp. 218-233). 1988

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Prosocial Managers, Employee Motivation, and the Creation of Shareholder Value

Kajackaite, Agne; Sliwka, Dirk - 2018

Milton Friedman has famously claimed that the responsibility of a manager who is not the owner of a firm is "to conduct the business in accordance with their [the shareholders'] desires, which generally will be to make as much money as possible." In this paper we argue that when contracts are...

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College admissions with entrance exams: Centralized versus decentralized

Hafalir, Isa E.; Hakimov, Rustamdjan; Kübler, Dorothea; … - In: Journal of Economic Theory 176 (2018), pp. 886-934

theory are supported by a lab experiment designed to test the theory, yet we find a number of differences that render DCA …

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Unequal Training Participation and Training Experience at the Digital Work Place - An Interdisciplinary Study

Vladova, Gergana; Wotschack, Philip - In: Proceedings of the Weizenbaum Conference 2019 …, (pp. 116-119). 2019

an experimental design that tests in a lab environment how learning barriers can be tackled by manipulating the … educational situation. In a final step, the methods developed and the results of the experiment are implemented and evaluated in … different actors in companies to better design working and learning conditions. …

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Nudging cooperation in public goods provision

Barron, Kai; Nurminen, Tuomas - In: Journal of Behavioral and Experimental Economics 88 (2020), pp. --

This paper experimentally studies two simple interventions that an authority figure might employ to promote cooperation in a public goods game when accurate feedback about contributions is not available. The first intervention aims to nudge participants to higher contribution levels by labeling...

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Quality certification for nonprofits, charitable giving, and donor's trust: Experimental evidence

Adena, Maja; Alizade, Jeyhun; Bohner, Frauke; Harke, Julian - In: Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 159 (2019), pp. 75-100

In an experiment, we test the impact of quality certificates on donations to a charity. Compared to the control group …

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Gendered Discrimination Against Immigrants: Experimental Evidence

Gereke, Johanna; Schaub, Max; Baldassarri, Delia - In: Frontiers in Sociology 5 (2020), pp. --

Recent migration from Muslim-majority countries has sparked discussions across Europe about the supposed threat posed by new immigrants. Young men make up the largest share of newly arrived immigrants and this demographic is often perceived to be particularly threatening. In this article, we...

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The leniency rule revisited: Experiments on cartel formation with open communication

Andres, Maximilian; Bruttel, Lisa Verena; Friedrichsen, Jana - 2021

in the role of the competition authority, who is properly incentivized to judge communication content and price setting …

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Signaling motives in lying games

Fries, Tilman - 2021

second half of the paper tests the theoretical predictions in an experiment. In contrast to previous literature, the …

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Gender differences in willingness to compete: The role of public observability

Buser, Thomas; Ranehill, Eva; van Veldhuizen, Roel - In: Journal of Economic Psychology 83 (2021), pp. --

experiment (N = 784) that varies the degree to which the decision to compete, and its outcome, is publicly observable. We find …

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